The main objective of Transkribus is to support users who are engaged in the transcription of printed or handwritten documents, namely humanities scholars, archives, members of the public and computer scientists.

Transkribus offers a number of tools for the automated processing of documents, such as:

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)

Layout Analysis

Document Understanding

Writer Identification

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using ABBYY Finereader Engine 11

Transkribus is funded by the European Commission as part of the READ project.

Credits

Transkribus is hosted by the Digitisation and Digital Preservation group (DEA) at the University of Innsbruck. It is funded by the European Commission as part of the H2020 Project READ (2016-2019).

Transkribus was previously funded by the FP7 Project tranScriptorium (2013-2015).

Transkribus is still under development and most parts of the software are Open Source. Visit our Github repository for further information.

Special thanks to the many users who provide their feedback via email and bug reports - though we are often not able to directly follow your suggestions, we try our best to include them in the long run!